Pair charged in fatal fight

June 18, 2004

ADDISON — A trader at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange has been charged with first-degree murder and a second man with aggravated battery in the beating death of an Addison man in a fight over a parking space last week.

Bail was set at $1 million Thursday for the trader, Troy Kindt, and $250,000 for Louis Battistoni, both of whom are accused of beating Nickolaus Artman outside an Addison restaurant June 12. The men were released after posting bond and are scheduled to appear in court July 12.

Kindt, 33, of the 0-99 block of Woodview Drive in Glen Ellyn and Battistoni, 30, of the 100 block of Glenview Avenue in Elmhurst had been at a bar when they decided to go to El Burrito Tapatio Restaurant. Artman, 24, was parking his vehicle when Kindt and Battistoni drove up and began quarreling with him over the parking space, said DuPage County State's Atty. Joseph Birkett.